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I don't know anyone apart from myself who has ever heard of it. They may have visited it but its pretty common these days to visit sites from following a Faceb

by siquick 11y ago

I don't know anyone apart from myself who has ever heard of it. They may have visited it but its pretty common these days to visit sites from following a Facebook posted link and never take notice of the actual site name.

derefr 11y ago
I would hazard that that's half the point. Medium, to the writer, is a centralized blogging platform, like WordPress or Tumblr—but it's an extremely white-labelled one, where there's not much to indicate to the casual reader that an article is "on Medium" rather than just existing out on a "real" blog somewhere. I think people prefer Medium mostly for that reader experience. With that in mind, there's a much more Hacker-ly way to get the same reader experience—namely, using one of the many services that provide a "blog-post format gateway" for Github Gists: • http://www.roughdraft.io/ http://www.roughdraft.io/ • http://gist.io/3135754 http://gist.io/3135754 • http://bl.ocks.org/ http://bl.ocks.org/ Etc.
- lelandbatey 11y ago
  I don't find Medium to be particularly white label, it seems very overt in it's branding. Loading an article off their front page on my phone, this is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/tJuLn0W.png http://i.imgur.com/tJuLn0W.png What's interesting is that I remember back when I first looked at Medium, it seemed more whitelabel than that screenshot. But I guess that's the point of the original authors post. Medium is a for profit company, and they're going to change the platform over time to try to make money. That may involve changes you don't like, but are unable to act on since Medium has all your content.
  - derefr 11y ago
    You're right, that's a more branded experience than I remember as well. In fact, it's worse on desktop as well: they have a bottom-bar now. I definitely had a cached thought that Medium was something I could sign up for if I wanted a fancy white-labelled pastebin, but I guess that's changed.

by siquick 11y ago

derefr 11y ago

I would hazard that that's half the point. Medium, to the writer, is a centralized blogging platform, like WordPress or Tumblr—but it's an extremely white-labelled one, where there's not much to indicate to the casual reader that an article is "on Medium" rather than just existing out on a "real" blog somewhere. I think people prefer Medium mostly for that reader experience. With that in mind, there's a much more Hacker-ly way to get the same reader experience—namely, using one of the many services that provide a "blog-post format gateway" for Github Gists: • http://www.roughdraft.io/ http://www.roughdraft.io/ • http://gist.io/3135754 http://gist.io/3135754 • http://bl.ocks.org/ http://bl.ocks.org/ Etc.

lelandbatey 11y ago
I don't find Medium to be particularly white label, it seems very overt in it's branding. Loading an article off their front page on my phone, this is what I see: http://i.imgur.com/tJuLn0W.png http://i.imgur.com/tJuLn0W.png What's interesting is that I remember back when I first looked at Medium, it seemed more whitelabel than that screenshot. But I guess that's the point of the original authors post. Medium is a for profit company, and they're going to change the platform over time to try to make money. That may involve changes you don't like, but are unable to act on since Medium has all your content.
- derefr 11y ago
  You're right, that's a more branded experience than I remember as well. In fact, it's worse on desktop as well: they have a bottom-bar now. I definitely had a cached thought that Medium was something I could sign up for if I wanted a fancy white-labelled pastebin, but I guess that's changed.